It’s the biggest pro-life event of the year — and Nick Loeb wouldn’t miss it.

The filmmaker, whose upcoming pro-life-leaning movie “Roe v. Wade” has generated considerable controversy in recent months, is in Washington D.C. this week to promote the project at the 2019 March for Life.

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Loeb sees the annual event as an important opportunity for him to spread the word about the movie, which has faced challenges such as people dropping out of the film early on and criticisms about the subject matter.

“Every major pro-life organization comes to D.C.,” Loeb told the Daily News of the march. “There’s events. There’s meetings. There’s tons of activities going on that we’re going to be going and speaking and talking about the film, and answering questions and showing our teaser. Promoting essentially, and getting people to understand what it’s about.”

Loeb, 43, released a rough teaser of “Roe v. Wade” on Monday, then traveled to the nation’s capitol on Tuesday ahead of the march, which takes place Friday.

He said in a phone conversation with The News during his train ride from New York to Washington that the film is currently in post-production and several months away from being completed.

“We’ve had distributors reach out to us and that we’re in the midst to talking to right now,” he said. “We haven’t made any decisions or finalities but that’s sort of the route we’re headed down right now.”

Loeb, the co-director and producer of the movie, has billed the project as a fact-based examination of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case that ensured women the legal right to get an abortion.

News of the film first emerged last summer, around the time multiple cast and crew members left the movie, reportedly due to its anti-abortion tilt. Two universities, meanwhile, barred the production from filming there. The movie’s cast includes Jon Voight, Jamie Kennedy, Robert Davi, Tomi Lahren and Stacey Dash.

Loeb says the controversy that has swirled around his movie has brought a “tremendous” amount of attention to it, and that the movie feels topical as ever with Brett Kavanaugh being appointed a Supreme Court justice, which could tip the scale for voting on certain conservative causes.

“Since we released the teaser ... the outpouring of support has been tremendous,” Loeb said. “I think everybody is blown away that this doesn’t look like a little small independent film, but it looks like a big studio movie and it looks really well done.”

He notes that his hope is the movie receives a PG rating, saying there’s nothing “gratuitous” in the movie. That’s in contrast to what crew members, whose identities were not revealed, had told The Daily Beast in July, claiming the movie featured graphic content such as showing fetuses following an abortion.

“When you read something and you shoot something, it’s two very different things,” Loeb told The News. “A lot of things are in context. When you write an abortion is taking place, you’re descriptive. But when you shoot it, you don’t necessarily have to show it to know what’s going on. It is not a graphic film.”

Loeb will show the film’s teaser ahead of the March for Life rally on Friday.

The president of March for Life confirmed in a statement to the Daily News that “Roe v. Wade,” among other pro-life films, had been approved to show their promos “several hours prior” to the rally’s start, but that the organization was not officially promoting Loeb’s movie.

The film is not affiliated with the National Right to Life — the biggest and oldest pro-life organization in the United States — but the group’s director of communications says Loeb told him about the movie early on, and that he finds it intriguing.

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“Any artistic endeavor that addresses the abortion issue that sparks conversation and can maybe move the needle on a one-on-one basis — neighbors talking to neighbors — I think does have value. … Good art sparks conversation and can spark change,” Derrick Jones told The News.

Loeb says “Roe v. Wade” will likely end up with a budget of around $8 to $10 million, but believes the film looks like it cost $30 to $40 million to make.

He expects it to get a wide release and wants it to have a major impact.

“I think there’s a shot this movie will shed a light on this and could help overturn Roe,” Loeb said. “If we can overturn Roe v. Wade with this movie, that would be my goal.”